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To be fair, it's similar because it's the problem people wanted solved - start this thing at boot, if it dies, restart it. I know rcS.d didn't handle the 'restart it', but even for the lowliest desktop user, if they've installed a daemon, and configured it to start, it more or less implies they'd like it to keep running.

Systemctl looks a lot like a modern init on another OS because a modern init on any OS looks a lot the same. Whether it should spawn 1800 subprojects is a different debate, but I for one am much happier maintaining trivial .ini like files than trying to teach the new engineer bash.




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